After everyone entered the woods, they each found a tree trunk to rely on, spread out the formation, and began to search the carpet again.

This forest is not large, and it is close to Xiaojin Mountain, and there are Chinese troops on the mountain, which are holding on to various positions, and the guns are constantly ringing, blocking the devils or encircling and destroying them.

The Wanjialing area under the mountain was even more in flames, with gunfire and shouts everywhere, which lasted almost all night and did not stop.

The Chinese armies were as excited as chickens, rushing everywhere, fighting together when they encountered the Japanese troops, constantly interspersing and dividing the Japanese troops, and then forming various small encirclements.

Like eating a steak, cut it with a knife, cut it into small pieces, and then eat it slowly, the devil has now become meat on the board, at the mercy of others.

However, the devils still have to thank the Chinese army for launching the encirclement and annihilation battle in the dark, if it is during the day, then many devils will have no place to hide.

In fact, after the two sides were in close proximity, even during the day, the Japanese planes had no way to participate in the battle.

It's just that China's Supreme Command wants to end the battle on the eve of the Double Tenth Festival and spread the news of the encirclement and annihilation of the 106th Division to the people of the whole country on this meaningful day to boost the morale of the anti-Japanese fighters.

War is a continuation of politics and serves politics; This Clausewitz talked about it in "On War", and Sangou also read such books in the military academy.

There are very few absolutely pure wars in the world, and in the past year or so, the War of Resistance and almost every major battle have been led by politics by the nose.

For example, the Battle of Songhu started in August, and it was almost impossible to hold it in September, but in fact, it should have to be withdrawn to the second and third lines of defense on the Sufu line and the Xicheng line in early October.

Hundreds of thousands of troops were withdrawn to these two routes one after another, and even to the line around Nanjing, blocking the Japanese mechanized troops step by step at the water network and rivers around Nanjing to Shanghai, or destroying a large number of roads to slow down the advance of the Japanese army.

The large front-line troops were defending and retreating one after another, and a large number of small groups of guerrilla troops were sent behind to harass the Japanese army's baggage, logistics, and ammunition supplies.

When the Japanese army is strong, organize a large force to launch a counteroffensive at more points, which can ensure that Nanjing is not lost.

As long as the capital Nanjing is not lost, the confidence and banner of the War of Resistance will always be there, and the people of the whole country will always be encouraged to resolutely resist the war, and the intensity of support will be different.

However, politics intervened in the course of the war, and the government always hoped that the army would fight a special battle in Shanghai, so as to attract the attention of foreign tycoons in the Shanghai Concession and interfere or even participate, and force the Japanese army to retreat.

In particular, when the League of Nations Congress was waiting for them to declare the Japanese army an invading force, it asked hundreds of thousands of troops who were ready to retreat to hold out again until November and fought for three months.

In the end, everyone knows what the result is, and even though the troops fought desperately until November and fought for three months, what could they do?

Even if the League of Nations declared that the Japanese army was an invading force, what would it do? Those Western powers only verbally condemned Japan, and would not send troops at all to stop the Japanese invasion of China.

And Japan even disdains any League of Nations Congress, and directly withdraws, a conference similar to the United Nations, can only restrain small countries, and there is nothing to be done about Japan, one of the world's great powers.

Therefore, Japan ignored the League of Nations Congress, continued to increase its troops in Hangzhou Bay, and made a roundabout flank attack, posing to attack hundreds of thousands of tired and wounded soldiers in Songhu, preparing to encircle and eat all the essence of these national troops, and solve the China incident in one fell swoop.

The battle has been fought so far, which has seriously violated the law of war, because political intervention and chaos have caused hundreds of thousands of troops to flee in a disorderly manner, and there are more casualties than on the front line in Shanghai.

Even if there are a few national defense fortifications of Su Fu Xicheng, the morale of the troops is gone, and no matter how good the fortifications and weapons are, they are all floating clouds.

That is, the 74th Army and the few other corps were able to maintain combat effectiveness during the retreat, and were responsible for covering the troops and blocking the Japanese army.

Although the troops were disabled several times, their spirit and combat effectiveness were brought out, and the 74th Army, which had been formed in the midst of national crisis, quickly grew up in the bloody storm when the country was in turmoil, and became a strong army in the War of Resistance.

In Nanjing, the same was true, politics once again intervened in the war, violated the laws of war, and knew that it could not be done, but did it partially.

The morale of the whole army was low, most of them were disabled, and there was a shortage of supplies, so they urgently needed to be repaired and repaired, but they had to defend these troops who had retreated from Shanghai to Nanjing.

In modern warfare, without air supremacy and sufficient artillery, defending the empty city of Nanjing is tantamount to fighting to the death.

According to the law of war, this city can no longer be defended, but politically it is not allowed, the capital is not collected, and it retreats without a fight, so what can be used to face the people of the whole country? The hearts and minds of the people will be lost quickly.

Therefore, it is very cost-effective to use these disabled troops as cannon fodder, and to exchange hundreds of thousands of tired and wounded soldiers for the popular support of tens of thousands of people.

It's a pity that Sangou is such an abandoned cannon fodder unit, plus a straw bag of city defense commander General Tang, first vowed to defend Nanjing to the death, and resolutely not to retreat, even if he himself dies in battle, he will defend to the death.

As a result, he was the first to escape, the problem is, you can escape in the dog's day, but you have to give these hundreds of thousands of troops defending the city a way out.

He cut off all the retreats, pulled all the boats on the banks of the Yangtze River to the north bank, and sealed all the city gates, some of which were filled with stones, mud and sandbags.

This was obviously a premeditated framing of these patriotic soldiers, and those officers who first knew that General Tang had fled also began to follow his example and fled before the Japanese army closed the siege.

A large number of low-level soldiers remained, abandoned by the entire country, abandoned by the entire military system, and left to fend for themselves with hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens.

As a result, there was the Nanjing Massacre, which was a shame for the ages, and the historical accounts remember very clearly, those who slashed the heads of refugees and soldiers, many of them were their own people, and they pushed these innocent dead people under the butcher knives of the Japanese army.

Sangou and his brothers almost became such cannon fodder, such worthless ashes that disappeared in the Yangtze River and in the long river of history.

After going through a lot of hardships, Sangou and they escaped this catastrophe by luck, until Sangou himself became the deputy battalion commander, his experience and circle, as well as some high-level battle reports and other information, let Sangou gradually understand these political things.

This time, it was necessary to encircle and annihilate the 106th Division of the Japanese Army on the eve of the Double Tenth Festival, and there was still a little element of political intervention in the war, and the besieged Japanese army had not yet reached the most difficult time.

The Japanese army on the periphery has not reached the time when it is the most pressing, in fact, if there is no node of this Double Tenth Festival, it is still possible to grind the 106th Division again, let them starve for a few more days, and before the general offensive starts, it is estimated that most of the devils will starve to death.